Author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803273047 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 468
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George and Tamsen Donner and their children, among the very first to leave from Illinois, joined emigrants headed to California in the spring of 1846. Beyond Fort Bridger, Captain Donner led a large party through a much-advertised shortcut. Delays and difficulties caused them to be snowbound in the High Sierras, facing the grim specter of starvation and extreme suffering. Though only four years old at the time of the expedition, the captain’s youngest daughter, Eliza Donner, would never forget the excitement of crossing the prairies—or the horror of that winter. Details impressed on her young mind were later substantiated by the recollections of her older sisters and other survivors. Her book, originally published in 1911, is an intimate and authoritative account of the Donner disaster. George and Tamsen Donner and those who shared their fate are fully humanized in the telling. Eliza also relates what happened to her and a sister after being rescued and what it was like to grow up in a world that turned the Donners into a grisly legend.
Author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton Publisher: IndyPublish.com ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 464
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Eliza Houghton (b. 1843) was the youngest child of George Donner, one of two Springfield, Illinois, brothers who organized the ill-fated California-bound emigrant party that bore their name. Eliza and her older sisters were rescued by relief parties that made their way to the stranded travellers at Donner Lake, but their parents perished, and the girls were left to make their way alone in the West. The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate (1911) begins with Mrs. Houghton's account of her childhood and the family's tragic overland journey, and rescue. She continues with her life as an orphan, first at Fort Sutter, and then with a family in Sonoma and with her older half-sister in Sacramento. She describes the impact of the gold rush and new immigration on the area, farm work and domestic work, and her own education in public schools and St. Catherine's Convent in Benicia. She writes at length of the emotional scars caused by contemporary rumors of cannibalism among the Donner Party and offers full accounts of Donner family history as well as the background of her husband, Samuel Houghton. An appendix contains several documentary sources for the history of the Donner Party.
Author: Houghton Eliza Poor Donner Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781318713318 Category : Languages : en Pages : 372
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Author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781536975192 Category : Languages : en Pages : 138
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The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out to California in May 1846. Unfortunately, due to several mistakes and accidents along the way, they were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter. The group was stranded for over four months and had to go to tragic lengths to survive. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate is a detailed book written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, one of the fortunate people who survived.
Author: Eliza P. Donner Houghton Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781975798482 Category : Languages : en Pages : 560
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The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846-1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although this aspect of the tragedy has become synonymous with the Donner Party in the popular imagination, it actually was a minor part of the episode. The author was about 4 at the time. The first part of the book accounts the tragic journey and rescue attempts; the last half are reminiscences of the child orphan, passed from family to family while growing up.
Author: Frank Mullen Publisher: a Halycon ISBN: 9781890591014 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
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The Reno Gazette-Journal and the Nevada Humanities Committee present Frank Mullen's account of the Donner Party, accompanied by hundreds of historical illustrations and Marilyn Newton's photographs of the trail today.
Author: Ethan Rarick Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198041500 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth. Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity." A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, A Desperate Hope casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.
Author: Eliza P. Donner Houghton Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265311493 Category : Languages : en Pages : 452
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Excerpt from The Expedition of the Donner Party, and Its Tragic Fate Who can wonder at my indignation and grief in little girlhood, when I was told of acts of brutality, in humanity, and cannibalism, attributed to those starved parents, who in life had shared their last morsels of food with helpless companions? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Author: Houghton Eliza P. Donner
Author: Houghton Eliza Poor Donner
Author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Author: Eliza P. Donner Houghton
Author: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Author: Frank Mullen
Author: Ethan Rarick
Author: Eliza P. Donner Houghton